Peder Lauridsen Kylling (c. 1640 – 1696) was a 17th-century Danish

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Biography

He was born in Assens and began studies at the

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in 1660. He graduated in

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in 1666 and was called as parish minister. However, for reasons now unknown, the call was withdrawn shortly afterward. Kylling then engaged in studies of

botany Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. His best known work is the ''Viridarium Danicum'' ("Danish Garden"), published in 1688. This work contains an alphabetic list of plant species and their places of occurrence in the crown lands of the Danish king, mainly from

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, but also from

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and Slesvig. More than 1,100 plant species were mentioned in the book. Some of the entries in the ''Viridarium Danicum'' are known to have been contributed by

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who was then the priest in Birkerød. The species list was later critically reviewed by M. T. Lange. Kylling is known to have worked on an enlarged edition, which however was never published. According to some sources, that manuscript was found in the library of

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. The plant genus

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(

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) was named in his honour by botanist

Christen Friis Rottbøll Christen Friis Rottbøll (3 March 1727, at Hørbygård, Denmark – 15 June 1797, in Copenhagen) was a Danish physician and botanist: He was a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus. Early life Rottbøll was born on the Hørbygaard estate at Holbæk, the ...

References

Citation

*Bricka, C F in Projekt Runeberg, Dansk Biografisk Lexikon. Vol 5 Page 609
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External links

''Viridarium Danicum''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kylling, Peder 1640s births 1696 deaths 17th-century Danish botanists People from Assens Municipality University of Copenhagen alumni